Sonic inspected the label on the water bottle carefully. The label said Dasani and it looked like plain old water. He put it down and walked into the living room. There were toys all over the floor everywhere so he picked them up and put the back where they belonged in the toybox. He still had no clue why Shadow was acting like a baby. He snickered. It was maybe because he watches too many baby shows. He really needed to grow up.

Sonic sat in the Thinking Chair and sighed. It looked like they weren't going to get the show filmed in time. This was a failure. Sonic was about to doze off when he heard the doorknob turn from the front door.

"Wha?" He got up out of the chair quickly. "I wasn't sleeping, I swear!"

The door opened and Steve and Blue entered the house. Blue was still sniffing and coughing though and Steve was holding a medicine bottle.

"Hey you guys." Steve greeted. "How'd filming go?"

Sonic coughed. "Um, yeah, it went great."

Steve frowned. "Oh no, are you sick?"

Sonic coughed again. "No, I don't think so…Achoo!" He sneezed and rubbed his nose.

"I'm sorry if Blue got you sick. I have some medicine here if you need some."

The director walked into the room. "Don't believe a word he says. We have got a grand total of nothing filmed today."

"What?"

Sonic put his hands up. "I can explain!"

Sonic then explained the situation to Steve and lead him to the bedroom. He walked quietly over to Shadow and carefully pulled the blanket back to reveal Shadow who was sucking his thumb in a deep sleep.

"But why is he doing this?" Steve asked.

"I don't know, he just suddenly started doing it."

The man put his hand on his head. "Oh no, we're in big trouble. We had to have this filmed by today so it can air next week."

"I'm sorry."

"Bow bow…" Blue coughed and laid down on the ground.

Sonic frowned. "Shadow, get up." He shook him awake. The black and red hedgehog woke up and looked over at them. "Mama?"

"Shadow, I'm done playing games with you, we have to get this thing filmed." Sonic said sternly.

"Puppy." He reached over and grabbed Blue and started to hug her. She didn't have the energy to fight back so she took the hug.

"No Shadow!" Sonic pulled the dog away and let her lie down on the ground again. "We need to get this done! Stop it!" Sonic was getting mad now.

Shadow looked at him with tears in his eyes and started to cry.

"Stop crying!"

Shadow continued to cry and rub his eyes.

Steve looked at them worryingly. "Maybe we can do this another day?" He asked.

"You said we had to have this done by today. We're getting this done today!" Sonic took out a pacifier and shoved it in Shadow's mouth. "There you big baby."

Shadow spit it out and continued to cry. Steve went to the director and started talking to him to try and straighten things out. Sonic was left there with Shadow and Blue.

"What will it take to make you stop acting like this?!" Sonic asked loudly in desperation. He was right at the point of pulling his quills out. "I should have never said yes to this!"

Blue covered her ears and started to howl.

"Aww great!"

"Blue is sick and she needs to get better before we can do another show." Steve was talking to the director in the other room.

"The network needs a new episode."

"I know but I can't help it when my dog gets sick."

"This is your JOB."

"I know but these things happen. Can you just do a rerun of an older episode?"

"If we do then it's coming out of your vacation days."

"But-"

"Do you want to treat your sick dog or not?"

"Yes!"

The director sighed. "Alright." He motioned to the camera crew. "Everybody pack up!"

The crew all started to put up their stuff and leave. Steve stood there in defeat and sat down in his chair.

Shadow had finally stopped crying and was sucking on the pacifier that Sonic had gave him when Steve walked in.

"What happened?" Sonic asked him.

"They're airing a rerun of an older episode."

"So we didn't have to come?"

"No."

Sonic looked back at Shadow and to Steve. "I am so sorry."

Steve sighed. "It's okay, Blue and I just won't have as many days for vacation. We haven't failed to tape an episode for a long time, but I guess stuff happens."

Shadow crawled on the floor to them, still with the pacifier in his mouth. Sonic sighed.

"What do you want now?" He asked in a kind of irritated voice.

"Achoo!" Shadow sneezed and the paci flew out of his mouth.

Sonic groaned. "Don't tell me you're sick too now."

The baby hedgehog wiped his nose with his sleeve and looked up at Sonic. He shivered.

"Oh my gosh you better not be doing what I think you're doing!"

Shadow smiled innocently.

"Oh my Lord. No!" Sonic exclaimed.

Shadow started to laugh a cute babyish laugh that slowly turned into his normal grown up laugh.

"What?" Sonic was surprised. He and Steve looked at the hedgehog in the Blue outfit.

"You really thought I would go THAT far?" He started talking normally for the first time in a few hours. Shadow now put on a smirk and he got up in a sitting position. He looked at Sonic's face and laughed meanly. "Did I ever get you good!"

Sonic wrinkled his brow and put on an angry face. "Shadow! This was all a trick? I seriously thought there was something wrong with you!"

"Yeah, pretty much." He answered while playing with his sleeper's ears.

"Why?!" We were sent here to do a job and you sabotaged the whole thing with this!"

Shadow cut his eyes at him. "Well…It may have had to do something with you telling me to admit that I'm a big baby, or something like that."

Steve put his face in his hands. "Oh my…Remind me not to ever outsource an episode again."

"Shadow! I didn't mean it like that! I thought it had something to do with the water you drank."

Shadow got up onto his feet. "Oh no, it had nothing to do with the water. I don't want to go through that again."

Sonic grabbed Shadow's arm. "I swear I am going to-" He said frustrated with his teeth clenched. He dragged him to the purple door. He looked at Steve. "I'm sorry Steve but we have to go now."

Steve nodded. "Goodbye, and thank you for trying."

"You're welcome!" Sonic went out the door and closed it behind him, holding Shadow's arm.

Once he was sure they were far enough away, Steve took out a memo pad and a pen and started writing. "Remind self to blacklist Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog."

Sonic was still irritated with Shadow and he didn't let go of his arm the whole way home. While he was dragging him along he was taking his frustration out on him.

"I can't believe you ruined it. Acting like a child to screw up everything. Oh if you ever do this again…" He looked straight at him. "If you wanna act like a baby I'm going to treat you like one!"

"No thank you." Shadow replied.

Sonic smiled a devilish smile. "Oh it's too late now."

Things were about to get interesting.